NTRP 5.0 vs D3 College Tennis Player - Mark vs. Josh - Match Play (Part 1) 

The people demand Olive vs Mark! Great video as always

Players of this level and so many foot faults? Mindblowing

Interesting comparison. Surprising for someone who must get a lot of coaching but Josh is all arm - big strong guy and he muscles everything. Problem with that is the arm is what should give you control, but it can't do that if it's tense as you are using it to muscle the ball. Hence even aiming for big targets he still misses regularly. Mark is nothing like as physically strong but hits it just as hard and with more control because he knows how to generate power using his body.

Josh foot faulted every time. Otherwise a decent serve

“I’ll serve first”. “I’ll break first”. The Notorious Mark Sansait is back again 🤝💪

Mark vs Olive would be terrific. But I’d also like to see Mark vs coach Andrew or coach Chris from Tennis Spin.

Josh probably developed the jumpy forehand from earl junior days where kids hit with excessive top spin. Hard habit to break but it requires a lot of footwork backing up and recognizing which balls to ease up on and just hit defensively.

Josh foot faults on his serves

Great editing RT team and insightful commentary Ian and Crazy Old Man Scott. The constant open stance forehand by Josh is a tough habit to break. I know this from my own personal experience, I have to tell myself to step in and stay grounded. Even then when I think I’m in a closed stance, it turns out to be neutral or semi-open which is fine. I already watched Part 2 (I accidentally watched it first). I am looking forward to seeing Josh on the channel again. Josh your positive attitude is golden and will take you many places in tennis and life.

Love Olive!! Make it happen 🙏

Not gon lie, ever since the first (unfortunately tragic) match against Ian, honestly Marks game has evolved!!!!

YES

Looking for flights now. Anyone in Milwaukee got an extra room I could stay at? 😇

Every serve of josh’s is a fault unfortunately. Very bad foot faults, he has to work on that. Foot is way too deep in to overlook

Mark does such a great job keeping those heavy forhands deep, and his backhands too. Big big big thing there.

Josh’s serve motion looks very much like an amped up version of Adam’s serve.

1:10 Foot Fault

Josh definitely foot faults every time with his right foot

Mark is like the cagey slick gunslinger of Western lore. His past conquests want to find and send the biggest guns imaginable at him. Olive vs Mark would shake the heavens.

Foot fault?

@Mark Sansait: 5:20 - regarding the always return first strategy: I crunched some numbers on over 170 singles matches I have done the statistics (most of them 4.5 level): On average 41% of service games get broken. The first game gets broken 44% but the 2nd game gets broken 48%. Possibly explanation could be that stronger server will elect to service first ? The 9th game (4:4) and 11th game (5:5) get broken 34% of the time but the 10th game (4:5,5:4) get broken 47% of the time. If you return in the first game you will serve at 5:4 (pressure to close it out) or 4:5 (pressure to hold). I'll need to run those stats again once I have more matches tagged ...

LET THE CARNAGE BEGIN

Josh, on your forehand under pressure you only do about half of a shoulder turn, and then rotate too fast and sorta spray the ball. I'd suggest reaching early with you left arm for the deuce court sideline on the backswing for every forehand...:)

Happy Holidays gents! Looking forward to an exciting match. TacoBell!!!!!!!!

i knew you were talking about olive as soon as you said "Her"! I love her channel!

Oh yes please Mr Ian "Dana" Westermann!! I've been following Olive TV (and she's no joke; she's a really good player) would love to see her play both Mark, and Scott. Let's make this happen ;).

Mark: "I have a hairline" 🤣

Nice to see Ian back! I missed you dude!

Arrange a Karue (my tennis hq) Mark match-up, and give Karue some handicaps, should be a fun match

Josh foot fault....foot fault...foot fault....foot fault....foot fault....🤣

Mark, what racquet, string, and tension do you use for your matches?

Josh foot faults on every serve

do i hear pickleball in the background?

those are some huge foot faults by Josh

a must: commentators box need to be smaller.

What's wrong with open stance?

I think Olive could take Mark's lunch money and shove him in a locker... oh wait, we're talking about tennis? lol

Mark is a real trash talker

Omg.. the footfault brigade is out on this one. So dumb. A barely crossed baseline on the serve for a guy that typically stays back does not impact the point.

This is 3.5 in Florida.

With the shoutout to @OlivePlaysTennis. It would be a close match I'd think.